Intel had already discontinued some of its Cascade Lake Xeon processors due to stiff competition from AMD’s EPYC Rome lineup. Many Cascade Lake SKUs survived the disconnect. After three long years, Intel decided to lay off some of the surviving employees.
Intel launched Cascade Lake in 2019 to replace Skylake. Cascade Lake is an optimized version of Skylake and represents an optimization phase in Intel’s process, architecture, and optimization development model. The 14nm processors were available in various presentations such as Cascade Lake-X for HEDT, Cascade Lake-W for workstations and Cascade Lake-SP and Cascade Lake-AP for servers.In a new Product Change Notice (PCN), Intel has been discontinued The company’s Cascade Lake-X and Cascade Lake-W lineups. This termination applies to both tray and box processors.
Belonging to the Core X-series category, Cascade Lake-X is a minimal lineup featuring only four Core i9 tier SKUs: Core i9-10980XE Extreme Edition, Core i9-10940X, Core i9-10920X and Core i9-10900X. was. . Intel had abandoned the HEDT segment for some time. Cascade Lake-X was Blue Team’s last wave of HEDT processors. Before the launch of Sapphire Rapids, rumors were circulating that Intel could return to his HEDT game with his Sapphire Rapids-X. However, no concrete evidence has yet been found to support this rumor.
On the other hand, Cascade Lake-W, marketed by Intel as the Xeon W-2200 series, offered more options with models ranging from the quad-core Xeon W-2225 to the 18-core Xeon W-2295. Intel later introduced his W-3200 series which is also based on Cascade Lake so making this distinction is important. However, the chipmaker has just stopped producing the W-2200 series for now. In any case, the Xeon W-2200 and Xeon W-3200 series were superseded by the more recent Sapphire Rapids Xeon W-2400 and Xeon W-3400 series.
Intel has announced the end of production for Cascade Lake-X and Cascade Lake-W, but customers still have plenty of time to order their 14nm chips. Intel has set the product’s final discontinuance date for April 26, 2024, and the company plans to ship his Cascade Lake-X and Cascade Lake-W orders by January 31, 2025. .
Logically, the end of life of processors also means the end of life of the chipsets that support these processors. Intel announced We will be deprecating the X299 and C422 chipsets via another PCN. These chipsets existed long before Intel launched Cascade Lake. The X299 and C422 chipsets debuted in 2017 with his LGA2066 socket from the old Skylake era. The chipset supported up to three generations of Intel processors, including Skylake, Kaby Lake and eventually Cascade Lake.
Cascade Lake is a relic of the past for Intel and most consumers. Chip makers are gradually shutting down older products and redirecting resources to focus on more recent products such as Sapphire Rapids.
